Subject: [Tweeters] Possible Mountain Chickadee, Marymoor
Date: Jun 11 23:51:43 2011
From: Michael Willison - sendtomichael at hotmail.com






Tweeters,

Took a quick loop on the Audubon Trail this afternoon at Marymoor and had a possible Mountain Chickadee right at the first bridge you come to walking from the "G Lot" towards the water. I saw the bird well but quite briefly and immediately thought this was a Mountain as I quickly noted the broad white strip above the eye. However, the reason I say "possible" is that the bird look ungroomed and raggety, I didn't get a good visual on if it had a longer bill or grayer body. Something just struck me funny on the bird to be 100% comfortable with Mountain. This would be a very unusual sighting in Winter, let alone Summer. Have there been any weird Black-capped's seen in that area by anyone?

Michael Willison
Stanwood